Torre Velasca

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Torre Velasca
Torre Velasca
Basic data
Place: Milan
Construction time : 1956-1958
Architect : BBPR
Use / legal
Usage : Office and apartments
Technical specifications
Height to the roof: 106 m
Floors : 26th
address
City: Milan
Country: Italy

The Torre Velasca is a striking skyscraper in Milan south of the cathedral . The building designed by BBPR is located in Piazza Velasca, named after Juan Fernández de Velasco , a Spanish governor of the Duchy of Milan in the 17th century. The planning of the high-rise building for the center of Milan, which was devastated by Allied bombing in 1943 , began in 1950, but the controversial building was not realized until 1956–1957. The construction time was 292 days, eight less than contractually agreed.

The lower 18 floors contain shops and offices, while the upper floors of the mushroom-shaped cross-section contain apartments. The protruding shape cites the Torre del Filarete of Castello Sforzesco .

In 2011 the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali placed the high-rise under a preservation order.

  • Photos by Paolo Monti

  • Scaffolding and shell construction (1956)

  • The tower under construction, from the roof of Milan cathedral seen from

  • Bottom view

  • Upper floors

  • Photo from 1973

literature

  • Torre Velasca, 26 piani, 800 locali. Società generale immobiliare, 1958.
  • Leonardo Fiori and Massimo Prizzon (eds.): BBPR La Torre Velasca. Abitare Segesta, Milan 1982.
  • Antonio Piva (Ed.): BBPR a Milano. Electa, Milan 1982.
  • F. Brunetti (Ed.): La Torre Velasca a Milano. Alinea, Florence 1999.
  • Ernesto Nathan Rogers : Il senso della storia. Unicopli, Milan 1999.

Web links

Commons : Torre Velasca (Milan)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b La soprintendenza mette il "vincolo" sulla Torre Velasca. Corriere della Sera, November 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ Patrick Nuttgens: Storia dell'architettura. Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2002, p. 287.
  3. ^ Manfredo Tafuri: Storia dell'architettura italiana. 1944-1985 . Torino 1986.
  4. ^ Mario de Miranda: La torre Velasca - Lettura delle Opere Strutturali. Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, 2008.
  5. ↑ Annachiara Sacchi: Is it so brutta la Torre Velasca? Critici e archistar milanesi si dividono. Corriere della Sera , April 3, 2012.

Coordinates: 45 ° 27 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 26 ″  E